Background
Barton, Arthur James was born on February 2, 1867 in near Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States. Son of William H. and Eliza M. (Morgan) Barton.
Barton, Arthur James was born on February 2, 1867 in near Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States. Son of William H. and Eliza M. (Morgan) Barton.
Educated Southwestern Baptist U. (now Union U.), Jackson, Tennessee, 1886-1891, Bachelor of Arts (conferred later), Doctor of Divinity, 1897. Doctor of Divinity, Baylor, 1903. Doctor of Laws, from Union, 1927.
Doctorate. Freeman), Review West. Henderson, 3 died in infancy. Ordained Baptist ministry, 1888. Principal Gadsden (Tennessee) Male and Female Academy, 1891-1892.
President Lexington (Tennessee) Baptist College, 1892-1894.
Pastor village churches to 1894, Edgefield Church, Nashville, Tennessee, 1894-1896. Assistant correspondent secretary Foreign Mission Board Southern Baptist Convention and editor Foreign Mission Journal, 1896-1899.
Correspondent secretary Mission Board, Arkansas Baptist State Convention, 1900-1902. A founder and editor Baptist Advance, Little Rock, 1902-1904.
Field secretary Home Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention, 1904-1905.
Pastor Beech Saint Church, Texarkana, Arkansas, 1906-1907, 1st Church, Waco, Texas, 1907-1909. Correspondent secretary Education Board, Baptist General Convention of Texas, 1909-1914. Pastor Emmanuel Church, Alexandria, Louisiana, October 1918-1921.
Founder and pastor Cavalry Church, Alexandria, 1921-1924.
Superintendent Missouri Baptist General Association, 1924-1926. General director Cooperative Program Southern Baptist Convention, 1926-1927.
Vice president Southern Baptist Convention, 1932. Chairman of the executive committee National Conference, Washington, December 1911, which framed Sheppard-Kenyon Bill as to inter-state shipments of liquor (same in substance as Webb Bill) and president 2d National Conference to promote this legislation.
Official delegate United States Government to International Conference Against Alcoholism, Milan, Italy, September 1913.
Chairman National Conference Washington, July 1915, on wording of Sheppard-Hobson Resolution for Prohibition Amendment to Federal Constitution, and chairman National Prohibition Constitutional Commission.
Member Southern Sociological Congress (commission on race economics progress). Member National Executive Committee and National Legislative Committee Anti-Saloon League America since 1913 (chairman National Executive Committee 1924-1934), president National Conference of Orgns. Supporting the Eighteenth Amendment, 1929-1932.
Member Executive Committee National Temperance Council.
Member National Council Boy Scouts of America. Member Clergymen’s Advisory Board of World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches.
Married Georgia May Jones, December 27, 1893.